Graham (GHC) Earns Media Sentiment Rating of 0.12

Media stories about Graham (NYSE:GHC) have been trending somewhat positive on Saturday, Accern reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by analyzing more than twenty million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Graham earned a coverage optimism score of 0.12 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned news headlines about the company an impact score of 45.0250644984704 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock’s share price in the next few days.

Graham (NYSE:GHC) opened at $566.15 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.19, a quick ratio of 1.91 and a current ratio of 1.99. The firm has a market cap of $3,130.00, a P/E ratio of 25.57 and a beta of 0.75. Graham has a one year low of $502.25 and a one year high of $615.85.

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Graham declared that its board has authorized a share buyback program on Thursday, November 9th that authorizes the company to buyback 500,000 outstanding shares. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are typically an indication that the company’s leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

In other Graham news, Director Katharine Weymouth sold 1,500 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, December 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $565.54, for a total transaction of $848,310.00. Following the transaction, the director now owns 14 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $7,917.56. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Company insiders own 22.50% of the company’s stock.

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Graham Company Profile

Graham Holdings Company, formerly The Washington Post Company, is a diversified education and media company whose principal operations include educational services, television broadcasting, cable television systems, and online, print and local TV news. The Company owns Kaplan, a provider of educational services to individuals, schools and businesses, serving over one million students annually with operations in more than 30 countries.